This Collider article rounds up the best comedy films of 2026 so far, highlighting how the genre has thrived this year across everything from scrappy independent productions to big-budget studio releases. The list deliberately focuses on films that are comedies first and foremost, excluding hybrids such as the sci-fi comedy Project Hail Mary, while noting that plenty of other strong comic films from the year didn't make the final cut.

– "Pizza Movie" (No. 8) — a chaotic, self-aware stoner comedy starring Gaten Matarazzo and Sean Giambrone as college students on a mission to fetch pizza after a drug mishap
– "Hoppers" (No. 7) — a Pixar animated comedy about a robotic beaver navigating the animal kingdom, directed by Daniel Chong and written by Jesse Andrews, praised as one of the studio's funniest films in years
– (Remaining entries down to No. 1 were not included in the supplied article text)